I picked the engine up on friday from amac engineering in northallerton, they had done a superb job of rebuilding it, it has had a repair to the head where the valve bounced around, 8 new valves, guides, bearings,rings , the block was decked and honed and the pistons pocketed for the ultra big inlet valves (1.8"!!)
put the engine in that afternoon it went in with no real trouble, on starting it the ignition timing was out, soon sorted that tho. the inlet manifold gasket was also leaking so I went back to it this morning to remove the carbs and seal the leak, did that and now have an engine running as sweet as a nut!!!
Due to the car standing I found that the remote servo had siezed, freed it off but still need to bleed the brakes, should be no prob tho, will mot the car on tuesday ready for the lakes tour next weekend..
steve